9. Aerial Inspections

Drones aren’t just for fun, although that is always gonna be a big part of their appeal for sure. Companies and governments all over the world are getting in on the UAV action. Drones, quadcopters and octocopters are perfectly suited for the purposes of aerial inspections. We’re talking about bridge and building safety inspections that both government engineers and private contractors are continually tasked to carry out.

The multinational telecom company T-Mobile has even rolled out a program this year to use drones to inspect over 5,000 telecom towers in Holland. The drones will be equipped with HD cameras, heat sensors and transmitters that will allow for real-time analysis of the data collected. Inspection projects that would normally take days of work can be eliminated by using drones that can even function in poor weather conditions.

Many drone manufactures have created crafts for almost every imaginable situation and even today they are being used for industrial inspections, aerial photography, agricultural assessments and research, 3D terrain mapping and a host of other uses.

With the construction and maintenance costs of these drones falling all the time, you can be pretty confident that this industry will experience an explosive growth.